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Increasing funds for MPLADS?

07 August, 2010

It refers to Union Minister of State for Statistics and Programme Implementation, Sriprakash Jaiswal expressing union government's willingness for increasing annual allocation to rupees five crores per MP for MPLAD scheme.

IT REFERS to Union Minister of State for Statistics and Programme Implementation, Sriprakash Jaiswal expressing union government’s willingness for increasing annual allocation to rupees five crores per parliamentarian toward MP Local Area Development (MPLAD) Scheme from present rupees two crores.

Any such proposal, which is against the opinion expressed by Planning Commission, will burden exchequer with rupees 4000 crores annually instead of present rupees 1600 crores. This is despite that findings of an earlier Parliamentary panel constituted on a TV sting catching MPs taking bribe to approve schemes to be funded through their MPLADS funds, endorsed views of Planning Commission that the scheme is a fount of corruption. Even the then Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chaterjee had echoed likewise to scrap the scheme.

Many MPs are over-generous to fund their favourite organisations for their projects from this scheme even though such funding may have nothing to do with public-welfare. It may be recalled that trusts floated by Election Commissioner Navin Chawla were found to be generously funded by MPLAD allocation of Parliamentarians from ruling party. Our Parliamentarians must have capability to get work done for public-welfare from existing administrative-machinery including wisely using RTI Act rather than needing short-cut ways!

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